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MI5-Persecution: How to Identify the Persecutors (12607 MI5-Victim@mi5.gov.uk
MI5-Persecution: Why do you think MI5 are responsible? MI5-Victim@mi5.gov.uk
MI5-Persecution: Why would they be doing this to you, s MI5-Victim@mi5.gov.uk
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Date: 16 Dec 2007 13:42:05 GMT
From: MI5-Victim@mi5.gov.uk
Subject: MI5-Persecution: How to Identify the Persecutors (12607)
Message-Id: <m07111613420382@4ax.com>
MI5 Persecution Update: Friday 19 March, 1999
If You Intend To Reply, Please Read This
Please.... keep your response to one page if you can! I have had several
people faxing my article back to me, including one MP faxing back twenty
pages. Faxes over a page or two will be deleted without being read.
Theyve started again. Why? I have no idea.
Unhappily, the persecutors, whoever they might be, have started their
activities again over the last two weeks. Usually they try to blame their
activities on their victim, but this time they have stopped even
pretending that the persecution is my fault. Their verbal abuse appears as
gratuitous as it is vicious.
Last Sunday 14 March, I went for a meal in Londons Chinatown with some
friends. As we were walking down Gerrard St, a man shouted loudly, twice,
the obscenity which has been directed at me for some three years now. This
followed previous incidents where the same words had been used. It is very
upsetting to be verbally abused in this way and to know that the cowardly
abusers are guaranteed to "get away with it" because if you report it then
it will be assumed to be part of your illness.
Keith Hill MP (Labour - Streatham), my elected representative, as ever
refuses to help.
MI5 Persecution : How to Identify the Persecutors
Usually delusional thinking does not allow the perpetrators to be
identified, or the alleged persecution to be proved. My so-called
"delusions" are different, because I have several times over a period of
some nine years seen the same people, in widely varying places. Most
importantly, their names have been recorded, on aircraft passenger lists
and hospital register; and if only the police would do their job
conscientiously then the persecutors could be identified and this unhappy
story brought to a final conclusion.
BA93 Heathrow->Toronto, 10 June 1993
In 1993 I flew to Toronto for a holiday. On disembarking from the
aircraft, a group of four men who travelled together looked in my
direction, and one of them said, laughing, "If he tries to run away well
find him".
I was absolutely stunned when I heard this. I wasnt surprised that they
had followed me to Canada, but it shocked me that they had been on the
same flight, and that one of them had foolishly given their group
away. Unfortunately I was so stunned that I made no attempt to stop them
as they got off the flight and proceeded into the terminal. I did not see
these people again during my visit to Toronto. I do not know whether they
followed me, or whether they were only part of a larger group, some of
whom may have already been on the ground and awaiting my arrival.
Over the next few years I made a number of attempts, all unsuccessful, to
obtain the passenger list for this flight. British Airways keeps passenger
flight coupons for each flight; so if only the police would do the job
that is being asked if them, then these four persecutors could be
identified, and thus their employing organisation, which is very likely to
be the Security Service, determined.
These four men were, apart from the joker who looked the odd man out in
the pack, very serious individuals. They appeared to be in their forties
or fifties, and my impression on seeing them was that they might have been
former soldiers. Their campaign against me concentrates on how
"funny" their abuse is; but in this they are plainly lying, because they
realise how awful will be the damage to the establishment of which they
form part, if the truth about the persecution ever sees the light of day.
The riddle of "Alan Holdsworth"
During Oct/Nov 1996 I saw a doctor several times about an infection, and
on 2 Nov 1996 I went to Emergency at the Ottawa Civic Hospital and saw Dr
Worthington, who was then Chief of Emergency Medicine. I had to wait
several hours before being seen, and several people jumped ahead of me in
the queue. One of these was a grey-haired man in his forties or
fifties. This may have been one of the men on the BA flight in 1993; I
cannot be sure. When Dr Worthington asked his name, he loudly said, "Tad",
which is the common abbreviation of my name. Dr Worthington looked
puzzled, glanced at the sheet in front of him, and said, "but your name is
Alan Holdsworth isnt it?". (I am pretty sure his Christian name was
Alan; I cannot be sure of the surname). The man looked put out, and said
quietly, "yes".
Unfortunately, I did not follow up this incident immediately. Some time
later, I wrote to Dr Worthington to ask the name of this patient, but he
refused to give the name out.
I saw this person again two and a half years later, at Ottawa Airport,
just as I was about to leave for England. In the warm weather, he was
wearing a coat and woolly cap, and pacing up and down in a menacing and
aggressive manner. Presumably he thought he was pretending to be a
"nutter" and in this way was getting at me; my impression is that he
doesnt need to pretend, Holdsworth or whatever his name is is clearly a
psychopath and in a healthy society such a person would be locked up,
instead of being paid public money to exercise his psychopathic
instincts. But todays Britain, a country where the MI5 secret police are
given free rein and nobody dares raise a voice in protest, is not a
healthy society.
"He doesnt know who we are"
For some reason, whenever I take a British Airways flight, I get hassled
by the "persecutors who wont admit theyre MI5". Since this business
started, I have travelled BA three times; once in June 1993 BA93 (see
above), once to/from Europe during Dec 95/Jan 96, and once in June 1998
with my mother to visit her family. The last journey, I was abused by two
"plants" who kept repeating, loudly, "paranoid" (I have this recorded on
minidisc). Presumably British Airways gives MI5 the seating plans for
their flights, which allows MI5 to position their agents of abuse three
rows behind me, so I cant face them, and they are throwing abuse at the
back of my head. I have travelled BA as infrequently as possible; to
Canada, I usually travel Air Canada.
Anyway, lets return to the second of the three BA trips, and in particular
to the flight on 2 January 1996 from Berlin Tegel, to Heathrow, and
onwards to Montreal Mirabel. Id waited all night at Tegel for the flight,
and was very tired on reaching Heathrow. On the plane to Montreal, two
youths sat about three/four rows behind me and to the right, in the window
seats. One of them, a rather fat "asshole" to use the Americanism (it
fits), kept on going on about "this bloke", saying among many other
things, "he doesnt know who we are".
Now that form of words is particularly interesting, because from May 1995,
some 8 months previously, I had been vigorously denouncing the "MI5
Persecution" on Usenet. So if Id guessed wrong, then you might expect the
harassers to crow about it; which they have not done. If I had guessed
right, and the persecutors have been silent before and since this flight,
then they could either admit they were MI5, which would be a very serious
thing for them to own up to, or they could brazenly lie, in which case I
would report their lie, and since many people must surely know who they
are, they would lose all credibility. So they have remained silent; apart
from this one phrase on the BA flight, where one of their agents said, "he
doesnt know who we are". Note carefully that this phrase is NOT a denial,
it only appears to be a denial; since it does not say that my guess was
wrong; it only states the objective fact that I do not know the identity
of the persecutors, without giving any information as to the validity of
my guess. Which leads me to posit that my guess was correct.
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Date: 16 Dec 2007 11:59:38 GMT
From: MI5-Victim@mi5.gov.uk
Subject: MI5-Persecution: Why do you think MI5 are responsible? (3875)
Message-Id: <m07111611593522@4ax.com>
Why do you think MI5 are responsible?
The question of who is ultimately responsible for this eight-year
harassment is one which is very difficult to answer, as the persecutors
have never clearly made their identities known to the persecutee. However,
I believe I am correct in attributing the continuing victimisation to
elements of the British Security Service MI5, and in this article, I will
try to explain the reasons for this belief.
The British internet magazine ".net" featured my website on page 17 of
their March 1998 issue (number 42). Their review kindly describes it as an
"excellent site" and gives some details of what the net surfer will find
there. Should you wish to reply to this article you can do so;
"When did you first suspect MI5 were responsible?"
Over Easter 1995 I went to see a local solicitor in London with a view to
talking to the police about the harassment. Soon afterwards I did go to my
local police station in Clapham and spoke to an officer there. The
solicitor made a comment which suggested to me that the persecution I had
been experiencing may have been organised by an intelligence service.
Up to this point, I did not have any clear idea as to who was behind the
harassment. Only their agents were visible, in the media, on television
news programmes, and on the radio; in the workplace, where things said at
my home were repeated verbatim; and in some cases abuse in public and
during travel, for example on the trip to Poland in June 1992 which I have
already described.
Both from the fact that widely disparate individuals and organisations
were employed as agents in the campaign against me, and from the fact that
an entity would be required to marshal their resources in the areas of
spying on my home and giving gathered information to their agents, it was
clear to me that a single entity was responsible for carrying out the
campaign. Yet from June 1990 until Easter 1995 I did not have a clear idea
of who might be responsible. I guessed that perhaps some private
individual or group of persons who saw themselves as my enemies had
perhaps paid private detectives to organise the harassment. Alternatively,
since the campaign had started in the media, I made a far-fetched
supposition that perhaps it was an ad-hoc group of media people who had
set themselves up in opposition to me. After Easter 1995 I saw that these
guesses were wrong, and I made an I believe much more accurate estimate as
to who my enemies really are.
"Why couldn't a private group be behind the persecution?"
There are several reasons why a private individual or group would not be
behind this campaign.
Quantity of resources / Money. Here is what one Usenet (internet
newsgroup) participant had to say (several years ago) on the topic of how
much money it would cost just to keep the surveillance going.
PM: >But why? And why you? Do you realize how much it would cost to keep
PM: >one person under continuous surveillance for five years? Think about
PM: >all the man/hours. Say they _just_ allocated a two man team and a
PM: >supervisor. OK., Supervisor's salary, say, #30,000 a year. Two men,
PM: >#20,000 a year each. But they'd need to work in shifts -- so it would
PM: >be six men at #20,000 (which with on-costs would work out at more
like
PM: >#30,000 to the employer.)
PM: >
PM: >So, we're talking #30,000 x 6. #180,000. plus say, #40,000 for the
PM: >supervisor. #220,000. Then you've got the hardware involved. And
PM: >any transcription that needs doing. You don't think the 'Big Boss'
PM: >would listen to hours and hours of tapes, do you.
PM: >
PM: >So, all in all, you couldn't actually do the job for much less than
PM: >a quarter million a year. Over five years. What are you doing that
makes
PM: >it worth the while of the state to spend over one and a quarter
million
PM: >on you?
A private individual or group would not spend over a million pounds to
verbally torture a victim without some financial motive or gain. Private
industry is driven by the profit motive, and there is no financial profit
to be had from carrying out a campaign in this way. If a private
enterprise were behind it then they would have taken direct physical
action a long time ago.
State enterprises, on the other hand, can afford to be wasteful, since
they are funded by the taxpayer. They do not have to show a money
profit. The employees or contractors employed by a state organisation such
as MI5 are driven by their own personal profit motives, to make the most
money out of their employers for the longest period of time. MI5 is funded
to the tune of #150M p.a.; even a few hundred thousand a year would to
them be affordable if their managers could convince themselves of the
necessity of what they were doing.
Quality of resources / Technical resources - electronic and other
surveillance. In summer 1994 a reputable and competent private detective
agency was employed to conduct a counter-surveillance sweep of my home in
London. They charged us over #400 for this, conducted a thorough search
for radio transmitting devices, hard-wired "probe" microphones and also
tested the telephone line. They found nothing. This was not altogether
surprising, since it had been made very clear to me that there were bugs
in my home; the "buggers" would not have made this clear unless they had
felt their bugs were of sufficient sophistication as to be safe from
detection.
But there is another lesson to be gained from the failure of the private
detectives to find anything. The agency employed was one of the most
reputable in London. They were employed on the principle of "setting a
thief to catch a thief", for if the harassment were being carried out by
private detectives, as I then believed, then surely another set of private
detectives would be able to find the bugs that they had planted. That
these "private eyes" were unable to find anything, and that the harassers
were confident that they would not be able to find any bugs, points to the
harassers being an order of sophistication above a private agency, and
leads me again to believe that a state intelligence service is responsible
for the surveillance and harassment.
Quality of resources / Technical resources - Interception of Postal
service. In summer 1994 when I emigrated to Canada to try to escape the
harassment, I wrote letters home to my family and friends in London. Quite
soon after my arrival in Canada, the harassers were able to find precisely
where I was staying. The only way I can see of "their" being able to find
out my new address was by interception of my letters to the UK.
Later in 1994, I conducted an experiment to see if my letters home were
indeed being read. In a letter home I wrote of being depressed and talked
in vague terms of suicide. I deliberately chose this topic, since I
believed it was the outcome my harassers were trying to achieve, and that
if they read the letter, they would "echo" its contents. Sure enough, soon
afterwards there were two incidents of people shouting "suicide" at me in
public places in Canada.
It is inconceivable for a private agency to have the ability to intercept
postal mail. The state security service on the other hand is well known to
engage in these activities.
Quality of resources / Access to Media. One of the strangest aspects of
this case is the access "they" have to the broadcast and print media. I
still do not understand what could persuade newscasters such as Martyn
Lewis and Michael Buerk, who consider themselves "gentlemen", to behave in
an almost voyeuristic way by "peeking" into the living room of one of
their viewers. A year ago I wrote to the BBC asking if these newscasters
would confirm or deny the accusations made against them. The BBC replied
that their newscasters had denied the accusations, but refused to do so in
writing.
It is well known that MI5 have the ability to plant stories in certain
newspapers, but convincing television newscasters to "watch" a viewer
while they read the news would surely be very difficult for them to
accomplish, unless they presented themselves to these journalists as
being, for example, a group in the media who were seeing to it that I got
my "deserved" treatment. MI5 has a history of manipulating the media, so
it might not be too difficult for them to accomplish such a trick, whereas
a private group would not have this ability.
"Have they ever denied that they are the Security Service?"
No. Never. This is in fact the main reason why I believe "they" are MI5
and not a privately funded group. If my guess had been wrong then I am
sure that "they" would have crowed over my mistake, but they have never
admitted nor denied that they are employees of MI5.
In early January 1996 I flew on a British Airways jet from London to
Montreal; also present on the plane, about three or four rows behind me,
were two young men, one of them fat and voluble, the other silent. It was
quite clear that these two had been planted on the aircraft to "wind me
up". The fat youth described the town in Poland where I had spent
Christmas, and made some unpleasant personal slurs against me. Most
interestingly, he said the words, "he doesnt know who we are".
Now I find this particular form of words very interesting, because while
it is not a clear admission, it is only a half-hearted attempt at denial
of my guess that "they" = "MI5". Had my guess been wrong, the fat youth
would surely have said so more clearly.
"If MI5 were behind it, why would they wish to mask their involvement?"
I have heard a number of times a belief from people in the media that it
is they, the media people, who are behind the abuse. In spring 1994 Chris
Tarrant the Capital Radio D.J. said sarcastically on his breakfast show,
"You know this bloke? he says were trying to kill him. We should be done
for attempted manslaughter". We, we, we. Tarrant thought it was a media
conspiracy.
Returning to the question of "interactive watching" by television
newscasters, it would again be much easier for them to take part in that
sort of activity if they convinced themselves that the surveillance and
abuse were organised by "their own", by media people. It must be second
nature to MI5 to mask their involvement in the matters they deal with; in
this case, they pretend the campaign is organised by a group in the media,
and any journalists who suspect otherwise keep their silence.
Conclusion
Over the last three years I have stated with some force my belief that MI5
are responsible for my misfortunes. I have done so on Internet newsgroups,
in letters and faxes to people in politics and the media in the UK, and in
1997 I made a formal complaint to MI5 regarding their activities; the
Security Service Tribunal replied in June 1997 that "no determination in
your favour has been made on your complaint". (I believe the statement by
the Security Service Tribunal can be disregarded, as they have never, ever
made a ruling in favour of a complainant.) In three years of naming MI5 as
my oppressor "they" have never denied the charge. To me, their silence on
this point indicates that my guess was accurate. I believe my persecutors
stand identified. The question of why they should carry out this campaign
is one I will try to answer in a future article.
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Date: 16 Dec 2007 12:28:27 GMT
From: MI5-Victim@mi5.gov.uk
Subject: MI5-Persecution: Why would they be doing this to you, sir? (6058)
Message-Id: <m07111612282590@4ax.com>
MI5 Persecution Update: Friday 15 May, 1998
The persecution has been quite severe for the last week. It appears that
my enemies are reacting to the steady stream of faxes making their way
over the Atlantic to the fax machines of Westminster politicians and the
media. Here is whats happened in the last few days;
The week started off with an incident in the cafeteria at a local shopping
centre where I habitually drink my morning coffee. My enemies have
concentrated since winter 1995/96 on throwing a particularly horrible
sexual slander against me. They "put people up" to repeat this slander
against me, and this is what happened again here.
On Thursday morning (yesterday), instead of going to the usual cafeteria I
went to a nearby convenience store for coffee. The same horrible sexual
slander was shouted at me very loudly by a member of staff as I walked
into the store. This was the first time I had ever bought morning coffee
in that shop. The other staff obviously knew what was going on, one of
them said, "they screwed up my life".
The fax gateway I use to send these faxes to the UK has been working hard
these last few days to shut down my access by barring the accounts I use
to send these faxes.
I have received an anonymous threat from fax number 0171-219-6101 (the
machine gave its name as "ETRA-HoC") which said, "Stop sending to this fax
no 0171-219-6101 or else" (the consequences of continued transmission were
unspecified). I invited the sender to apologise for his threat, but
received no response.
This all adds up to quite a severe reaction to my faxes of the last few
weeks. I actually find this quite heartening since it shows that my faxes
are finding the mark and there may yet be a breakthrough in my efforts to
expose the Security Service conpiracy of abuse against me which has now
been going on for eight years.
MI5 Persecution: "Why would they be doing this to you, sir?"
This article will concentrate on the difficult question of "Why". The
question which forms the title of this piece was asked of me by the police
officer I spoke to in Easter 1995, when I went to make my complaint.
There are really two sides to this question. Firstly, why should MI5 be
harassing anybody in this fashion? Secondly, if they choose to behave in
this way, why should they have selected me in particular, and not somebody
else? Alternatively, why did the persecution start, and why is it
continuing?
I do not have definite answers to either side of this question, since my
persecutors have usually kept themselves hidden and only acted through
other parties. To know "why", one would have to know who the persecutors
are, and something of their personalities, since their abuse is almost
certainly symptomatic of a personality disorder of the abusers. Certain
things however can be deduced about the abusers from the nature of their
behaviour, and I will talk about this later in the article.
Why did it start?
It is clear that the persecution must have been initiated by someone who
knew me personally, either at school, or at university, or socially, and
knew that I was borderline mentally ill, since this is what makes me a
target for the persecutors. Unfortunately, the originators have never been
identified, and there are several possible candidates. Neither has the
link from the originators of the persecution, to the persecutors
themselves, ever been made clear. So who are the originators?
University Staff
The identity of the originators may lie in the timing of the
persecution. It started in June 1990, while I was finishing a course at
Imperial College in London, and a year after I graduated from Cambridge,
where I received a degree in computer science. At Cambridge I had achieved
some notoriety in the computer lab from various nefarious exploits. Roger
Needham attacked me by saying that "there were great hopes for it, but it
failed terribly". When I started at Imperial I found that my reputation
had preceded me; Cambridge computer lab had spoken to I.C. lecturers about
me. I.C. lecturer Frank McCabe summed up commenting about "setting up a
straw man so you can tear him down". (Despite being "torn down" by the
Cambridge computer labs lecturers, I still achieved a good first degree
and a Masters degree at Imperial.)
Other students at university
So, the originators may have been university staff who knew me from my
student days. But there are other possibilities. I had other enemies at
university, including some fellow students. At my Cambridge college it was
common knowledge that my mental health was dubious, and it was known that
I talked to myself in my sleep - the floor and walls were quite permeable
to noise, so other students heard. I was given the nickname
"gibber" because of this habit. Sometime later, I managed to catch myself
talking in my sleep when I woke up in the middle of the night.
Here is a quote from a participant in the internet newsgroup where I have
been posting for the last three years;
>One thing which has been missing from this discussion is this simple
>prognosis: that maybe he is right and that, despite his admitted
>mental condition, there really is a campaign against him organised by
>now-influential ex-students of his university.
People I knew socially
I had yet other enemies in 1990 (I am a man of many enemies!). In January
1990 I broke up with some people I had been going out with socially. One
of them, by the name of Andy Turner, wrote a letter to Alan Freeman, who
at the time was a Radio 1 DJ. Freeman read part of the letter out on his
Rock Show, about the "one who wore out his welcome with random precision",
saying "thats a hell of a letter you wrote there Andy", and "with a
schizophrenic youre never alone".
It is my belief that Andy Turner and his friends were trying to make
trouble for me, and Turner wrote to Freeman with this in mind. Freeman may
have discussed the letter with others, and things may have snowballed from
there. This is, of course, pure supposition. The fact is that I do not
know who the originators are, and can only guess.
Once it started, why is it continuing?
The answer to this question is obvious. It is unacceptable to the "powers
that be" in the UK to have somebody running around who knows he has been
targeted by the Security Service and media organizations, and who is in a
position to embarrass British institutions. This has become particularly
evident in the last week; as I send more faxes to UK politicians and
media, so the pressure on me grows, and the volume of abuse increases.
Part of the reason the persecution continues is in the personalities of
the abusers, and it is this subject to which I will turn to next, since
the key to understanding the persecution lies in understanding those who
carry it out, as much as we can.
The Security Service operatives, the persecutors, are they psychopaths?
Let us first examine the definition of the term "psychopath". DSM-IV
defines "anti-social personality disorder" as a "pattern of disregard for
and violation of the rights of others ... deceitfulness, irritability and
aggressiveness ... consistent irresponsibility and lack of remorse". The
Harvard Mental Health Letter of Sept 1995 describes these people as using
"charm, manipulation, intimidation and violence to control others and
satisfy their own needs. Lacking in conscience and in feelings for others,
they cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please", having "no
guilt or regret".
I must say, reading this description of the condition, that it fits the
persecutors perfectly. The persecutors have never shown the slightest
remorse or guilt. Even when I was severely ill, they continued to abuse
me. They have repeatedly blamed their actions on me, which is another
trait common amongst psychopaths. They have no respect for my legal or
personal rights, and they use intimidation and verbal violence.
If the MI5 operatives are psychopaths then it would explain both why the
persecution started, and the degree of verbal violence. Psychopaths by
definition damage other people; here, the MI5 operatives find an outlet
for their personality disorder, through "cripple-kicking".
Xenophobia on the basis of mental illness, and race
My enemies have made clear many times that one of the reasons they are
persecuting me is because of my admitted mental illness. However, it is my
belief that they are also persecuting me because I am not of ethnic
English origin, and the fact that there have been several incidents of an
overtly racist nature reinforces this view.
In one case, two youths on a tube train in London made openly racist
references to me as a "soft toy, not up to British Standards". Another
person near my home made remarks about "Polish people". In yet another
incident in Croydon, a youth made comments about "foreigners".
But the main thrust of their xenophobia is because of my mental illness. I
should make clear that I do not look ill; if you met me, you would not
know that I had the illness. I take a relatively low dose of medication,
and feel quite well. But the persecutors have repeatedly harped on about
my supposed serious mental illness; they have called me a "nutter", a
"schizophrenic", etc. They have also persuaded other people to use these
terms of abuse. They are able to get away with this because abusing the
mentally ill is still something which is mostly acceptable in Britain; the
media do it, "nutter" is not taboo in the way that "nigger" is.
Conclusion
There are several groups of people who might have wished to cause me
trouble, and I still do not know who originated the persecution. Nor do I
know how the originators came to be in contact with the
(presumed) Security Service operatives who have been carrying out the
campaign. To know conclusively why it started, we would have to know who
started it, and this information is not available.
However, we can infer some things about the personalities of the
persecutors from their methods, and from the degree of verbal violence
they employ. It is clear that a main reason for the continuing harassment
is the psychopathic disorder of the MI5 agents who carry it out. That they
have never been "brought to book" for their misdeeds reinforces their
belief that they do no wrong; and, unhappily, until they are brought to
book, their persecution campaign looks set to continue.
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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:42:13 GMT
From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal Schwartz)
Subject: new CPAN modules on Sun Dec 16 2007
Message-Id: <Jt4nuD.1y8n@zorch.sf-bay.org>
The following modules have recently been added to or updated in the
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). You can install them using the
instructions in the 'perlmodinstall' page included with your Perl
distribution.
Audio-LADSPA-0.020
http://search.cpan.org/~jdiepen/Audio-LADSPA-0.020/
Modular audio processing using LADSPA plugins. Implements a LADSPA 1.1 host.
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Audio-LADSPA-0.021
http://search.cpan.org/~jdiepen/Audio-LADSPA-0.021/
Modular audio processing using LADSPA plugins. Implements a LADSPA 1.1 host.
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CGI-Ex-2.22
http://search.cpan.org/~rhandom/CGI-Ex-2.22/
CGI utility suite - makes powerful application writing fun and easy
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Cache-Memcached-Fast-0.02
http://search.cpan.org/~kroki/Cache-Memcached-Fast-0.02/
Perl client for memcached, in C language
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Debug-Smart-0.005
http://search.cpan.org/~shibuya/Debug-Smart-0.005/
Debug messages for smart logging to the file
----
Devel-Graph-0.12
http://search.cpan.org/~tels/Devel-Graph-0.12/
Turn Perl code into a graphical flowchart
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Devel-PerlySense-0.0133
http://search.cpan.org/~johanl/Devel-PerlySense-0.0133/
IntelliSense for Perl
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Device-USB-MissileLauncher-RocketBaby-1.00
http://search.cpan.org/~pen/Device-USB-MissileLauncher-RocketBaby-1.00/
interface to toy missile launchers from Dream Cheeky
----
File-ExtAttr-1.07
http://search.cpan.org/~richdawe/File-ExtAttr-1.07/
Perl extension for accessing extended attributes of files
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Finance-NFS-File-AccountBalance-0.001000
http://search.cpan.org/~groditi/Finance-NFS-File-AccountBalance-0.001000/
Read Account Balance Records into data structures
----
Graph-Flowchart-0.11
http://search.cpan.org/~tels/Graph-Flowchart-0.11/
Generate easily flowcharts as Graph::Easy objects
----
Gtk2-Hexgrid-0.04
http://search.cpan.org/~zpmorgan/Gtk2-Hexgrid-0.04/
a grid of hexagons
----
IO-Lambda-0.04
http://search.cpan.org/~karasik/IO-Lambda-0.04/
non-blocking I/O in lambda style
----
Image-Info-1.27
http://search.cpan.org/~tels/Image-Info-1.27/
Extract meta information from image files (DEPRECATED)
----
List-Rotation-1.008
http://search.cpan.org/~pelagic/List-Rotation-1.008/
Loop (Cycle, Alternate or Toggle) through a list of values via a singleton object implemented as closure.
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Log-Smart-0.005
http://search.cpan.org/~shibuya/Log-Smart-0.005/
Messages for smart logging to the file
----
Net-Google-Calendar-0.9
http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/Net-Google-Calendar-0.9/
programmatic access to Google's Calendar API
----
Ogre-0.35
http://search.cpan.org/~slanning/Ogre-0.35/
Perl binding for the OGRE C++ graphics library
----
Ogre-AL-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~slanning/Ogre-AL-0.01/
Perl binding for the OgreAL C++ library
----
Ogre-BetaGUI-0.03
http://search.cpan.org/~slanning/Ogre-BetaGUI-0.03/
----
Parse-Eyapp-1.095
http://search.cpan.org/~casiano/Parse-Eyapp-1.095/
Extensions for Parse::Yapp
----
Perl-Critic-1.081_001
http://search.cpan.org/~elliotjs/Perl-Critic-1.081_001/
Critique Perl source code for best-practices
----
Speech-eSpeak-0.3
http://search.cpan.org/~hgneng/Speech-eSpeak-0.3/
Perl extension for eSpeak text to speech
----
Spreadsheet-Engine-0.04
http://search.cpan.org/~tmtm/Spreadsheet-Engine-0.04/
Core calculation engine for a spreadsheet
----
TAP-Harness-Archive-0.03
http://search.cpan.org/~wonko/TAP-Harness-Archive-0.03/
Create an archive of TAP test results
----
Wiki-Toolkit-Formatter-XHTMLMediaWiki-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~gam/Wiki-Toolkit-Formatter-XHTMLMediaWiki-0.01/
A Mediawiki-style formatter for Wiki::Toolkit.
----
XHTML-MediaWiki-0.02
http://search.cpan.org/~gam/XHTML-MediaWiki-0.02/
Translate Wiki markup into xhtml
----
XML-Compile-0.63
http://search.cpan.org/~markov/XML-Compile-0.63/
Compilation based XML processing
----
aware-status-0.1
http://search.cpan.org/~tbr/aware-status-0.1/
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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:15:02 +0100
From: "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at>
Subject: Re: not sure why I am getting the following warning "Useless use of a constant in void context"
Message-Id: <slrnfm8guo.8c3.hjp-usenet2@hrunkner.hjp.at>
On 2007-12-14 20:44, John W. Krahn <krahnj@telus.net> wrote:
> "mcardeiro@yahoo.com" wrote:
>> On Dec 14, 12:40 pm, "John W. Krahn" <kra...@telus.net> wrote:
>> > Just because it "works", for some value of "works", does not mean it is
>> > the correct way to do it.
>>
>> what exactly is incorrect about saying run a subroutine and assign the
>> return to a variable or exit?
>
> I was commenting on the use of '||' instead of 'or' for flow control.
> That the subroutine in question uses 'exit()' is just a side effect.
> You shouldn't rely on side effects for flow control.
You are doing the same thing with or. It just happens at a slightly
different point in the program.
hp
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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:22:28 +0000
From: fergus@twig.demon.co.uk (Fergus McMenemie)
Subject: Possible bug in XML:LibXML
Message-Id: <1i97oag.vi2szejs8dggN%fergus@twig.demon.co.uk>
The following test script is not doing what I expect. It must be
a bug:-) The docs I have seen state that "In a SCALAR context
getElementsByTagName returns a XML::LibXML::NodeList object.
Instead I see it returning a string of the combined text objects
from all the child nodes. I have seen this behaviour repeated on
Mac 10.4 and Solaris 10. XML::DOM behaves as documented.
use strict;
use XML::LibXML;
my($parser);
MAIN: {
$parser = XML::LibXML->new();
test4();
}
sub test4 {
print "\n","4"x50,"\n";
my $tree = $parser->parse_file('camelids.xml');
my $root = $tree->getDocumentElement;
my $x=($root->getElementsByTagName("common-name"));
print "\nx=$x\n"; # should be number of elements in an Element array..
# i think!
my $y=$root->getElementsByTagName("common-name");
print "\ny=$y\n"; # should be a NodeList
my($z)=$root->getElementsByTagName("common-name");
print "\nz=$z\n"; # should be 1st element of Element array
foreach my $camelid ($root->findnodes('species')) {
my $latin_name = $camelid->findvalue('@name');
my $common_name = $camelid->findvalue('common-name');
my $status = $camelid->findvalue('conservation/@status');
print "$common_name ($latin_name) $status \n";
}
}
The above example is based on a example from
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/14/xml-libxml.html
I would be glad if any mistakes in what I have done were pointed
out. Or any hints on how I should take this further. I think I
see similar incorrect behaviour in find() and findnodes().
Thanks in advance Fergus.
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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:15:48 GMT
From: Justin Smith <jsmith@drexel.edu>
Subject: Re: Problems with PAR
Message-Id: <8uX8j.505$qv1.14@trndny01>
Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately, I now get the error message:
Can't locate POSIX.pm in @INC (@INC contains: CODE(0x126ad80) /tmp/par-
jsmith/cache-fc14e83c43d898aefd57a65be47befade41db747/inc/lib /tmp/par-
jsmith/cache-fc14e83c43d898aefd57a65be47befade41db747/inc CODE(0xfbcbc0)
CODE(0xfbce50)) at (eval 26) line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 26) line 2.
couldn't read bitmap file "": No such file or directoryerror reading
bitmap file "" at Tk/Widget.pm line 205.
at Tk/Widget.pm line 203
I also get this message (about POSIX.pm) under Windows. It's kind of
odd, since POSIX is built in to perl.
Any other suggestions?
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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:45:54 GMT
From: "A. Sinan Unur" <1usa@llenroc.ude.invalid>
Subject: Re: Problems with PAR
Message-Id: <Xns9A07B4B6CA2E3asu1cornelledu@127.0.0.1>
Justin Smith <jsmith@drexel.edu> wrote in news:8uX8j.505$qv1.14@trndny01:
> Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately, I now get the error message:
>
>
> Can't locate POSIX.pm in @INC (@INC contains: CODE(0x126ad80) /tmp/par-
> jsmith/cache-fc14e83c43d898aefd57a65be47befade41db747/inc/lib /tmp/par-
> jsmith/cache-fc14e83c43d898aefd57a65be47befade41db747/inc CODE(0xfbcbc0)
> CODE(0xfbce50)) at (eval 26) line 2.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 26) line 2.
> couldn't read bitmap file "": No such file or directoryerror reading
> bitmap file "" at Tk/Widget.pm line 205.
> at Tk/Widget.pm line 203
>
>
> I also get this message (about POSIX.pm) under Windows. It's kind of
> odd, since POSIX is built in to perl.
Apparently it is 'used' in a way that is not detected by Module::ScanDeps.
Read perldoc pp and look into the -M option.
Sinan
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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:43:57 -0500
From: Bernie Cosell <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>
Subject: Re: Question about "undef'ing" variables
Message-Id: <n17am39qr8d6i6smkgc10t81q0j8rj03ht@library.airnews.net>
Klaus <klaus03@gmail.com> wrote:
} On Dec 14, 4:40 am, somebody <s...@body.com> wrote:
} > In the code snippet below, I process each line of a file using the split
} > command. After the variables $a, $b, $c, and $d are used, I need to
} > ensure they're "undef'd" before processing the next line, so the value
} > assigned from the previous line is not defined. So the line
} > ($a, $b, $c, $d) = (0) x 4; resets these variables.
}
} It is common practice to reset your variables using "undef":
}
} undef $a;
} undef $b;
} undef $c;
} undef $d;
I'm not so sure about "common" -- in virtually all of my Perl code, just
about the *only* time I have used undef in this way is to help the object
destructor machinery undo things in the right order. As a "common"
practice, using 'my' with an appropriate scope takes care of the undef'ing
invisibly and automatically, and I'd be surprised if that didn't work in
this case, also.
/Bernie\
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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:54:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Florian Kaufmann <sensorflo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: value or reference inside foreach <expr>?
Message-Id: <af1c0d6a-c89a-447e-abb3-71adfd512fcd@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
> The braces are used [SNIP] to dereference an array [SNIP] but none of these
uses constitutes a block.
After reading Chapter "Using a BLOCK as a Variable Name" ("Programming
Perl") again I would say that there is indeed one block. The book
makes an example how to dereference the contents of a block:
push( @{$arrayref}, $filename )
Thus the curly braces indeed constitute a block, and its the @, not
the braces, which dereferences the reference to the array. I think
this is analogous to your example.
Flo
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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:11:45 +0100
From: Michele Dondi <bik.mido@tiscalinet.it>
Subject: Re: value or reference inside foreach <expr>?
Message-Id: <0o8am3pl560qifd28ca4qg99l2uc193dfr@4ax.com>
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:54:29 -0800 (PST), Florian Kaufmann
<sensorflo@gmail.com> wrote:
>After reading Chapter "Using a BLOCK as a Variable Name" ("Programming
>Perl") again I would say that there is indeed one block. The book
>makes an example how to dereference the contents of a block:
>
>push( @{$arrayref}, $filename )
>
>Thus the curly braces indeed constitute a block, and its the @, not
>the braces, which dereferences the reference to the array. I think
>this is analogous to your example.
I was about to say: nope! But I tried the following and it does work:
C:\temp>perl -wMstrict -e "@{my @x}"
Useless use of a variable in void context at -e line 1.
Can't use string ("0") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
-e line 1.
C:\temp>perl -wMstrict -e "@{my @x; \@x}"
Useless use of a variable in void context at -e line 1.
C:\temp>perl -wMstrict -e "print @{my @x=qw/a b c/; \@x}"
abc
C:\temp>perl -wMstrict -e "print @{my @x=qw/a b c/; \@x}; print @x"
Global symbol "@x" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
So it seems that the curlies in the dereferencing do actually define a
block. (I would have thought that they could only handle a single
expression, and to use a do() to put there several statements.)
However I would say that its @ { } which dereferences the reference.
Michele
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